I’m really looking forward to steering this blog towards being the go-to place for tech news in the UK. From bedroom coders working on the next big thing to the latest moves from government and media moguls, we’ll be covering it all.

So, let’s take a look at what the first full week of 2010 held in terms of UK tech news…

Tweeting from the newsroom becomes mandatory

Switched-on journalists have used social media for finding and researching stories for some time now. Sky News has gone a step further by installing Tweetdeck on every journalist’s computer. Let’s just hope they switch off notification sounds in the newsroom or it’s going to become one noisy place.

Slightly less inspiring news came from Rupert Murdoch, who began blocking news aggregation services, starting by banning UK-based NewsNow from indexing articles from his Times Online site. Based on Murdoch’s previous threats, we wouldn’t de surprised to see more news aggregators added to the list in the near future, but will he go as far as blocking the behemoth that is Google News?